NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 03-2011

The Canadian dollar made strides against the U.S. greenback Monday after Canada's central banker warned over the weekend of inflationary concerns, suggesting interest rates may not be on hold much past a spring federal election.

A Winnipeg lawyer has pleaded guilty to professional misconduct for pressuring a man to have sex with his wife, who later became a family court judge.

The ocean waters surrounding a troubled Japanese nuclear power plant are becoming increasingly radioactive, fuelling fears that contaminated water may be leaking out of damaged reactors into the nearby environment.

Two people remain unaccounted for after a weekend explosion ripped apart a walk-up apartment building in southwestern Ontario, leaving seven people injured and several dozen homeless.

Cpl. Yannick Scherrer, 24, was killed Sunday at about noon local time while on foot patrol with the Afghan National Army near Nakhonay, southwest of Kandahar city, when the IED exploded.

Libyan revolutionaries, who last week struggled to move west along the coast from their eastern stronghold of Benghazi, could recapture Sirte, a Mediterranean city located 360 kilometers (225 miles) east of Tripoli, on Monday, Reuters reported.

Telus is warning B.C. and Alberta residents to be on the lookout for a new email scam designed to get at your personal information.

Chris Higgins had a two goals and an assist and the Vancouver Canucks beat the Columbus Blue Jackets 4-1 on Sunday to reach 50 victories for the first time in their 40-year history.

Harry Wesley Coover Jr., known as the inventor of Super Glue, has died at his home in Kingsport, Tenn. He was 94.

Led by Canadian Lt.-Gen. Charles Bouchard, NATO is taking control of aerial operations in Libya, as it launches strikes against Moammar Gadhafi's forces and maintains the UN-authorized no-fly zone.

Police are looking for three suspects who grabbed a woman off of a North End street and carried her for three blocks before sexually assaulting and robbing her.

British Columbia's New Democrats have launched a fresh attack of Premier Christy Clark, releasing an ad that casts the new Liberal leader as merely a copy of her predecessor.

A tsunami advisory has been issued for the Miyagi prefecture in Japan's earthquake-ravaged northeast coastal region, following a quake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.5, the Japan Meteorological Agency said Monday morning.

Don Ferguson said Abbott, 64, died Saturday night at Toronto General Hospital, 14 years after being diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

More than 250,000 people took to London's streets to protest the toughest spending cuts since the Second World War in one of the largest demonstrations since the Iraq war.

The Syrian government says 12 people were killed in violence rocking the seaside Mediterranean city of Latakia.

Officials in southern Ontario are urging residents in an area east of Port Hope to evacuate their homes immediately after a CN train derailment and fire.

As many as 11 people are reportedly missing in an apparent explosion at an apartment building in Woodstock, Ont.

The Bloc Leader said there was a key meeting in a Montreal hotel where the subject of the opposition parties banding together against Mr. Martin was thrashed out.

Rebel forces retook another key Libyan oil town late Saturday as they continued a westward push toward the capital, seizing momentum against Moammar Gadhafi's forces amid international airstrikes.

Workers at a tsunami-damaged nuclear plant were forced to evacuate after radiation levels 10 million times above the normal rate were reported in a reactor unit Sunday, but the reading was an error, officials say.

Canada AM has welcomed many top recording artists over the years. But when Royal Wood, Faber Drive and Dean Brody sat down together to discuss their 2011 Juno nominations on Friday one thing was clear: Thanks to technology, Canadian success stories no lon

A vitriolic first day of campaigning kicked off Saturday with Conservative Leader Stephen Harper accusing his political opponents of vying to form a coalition government after the election.

If the workers had been told of the possibility that a pool of water in the building contained high concentrations of radiation, their radiation exposure probably would have been averted, analysts said.

Green Party Leader Elizabeth May launched her federal election campaign on Vancouver Island on Saturday.

A 38-year-old woman faces fraud charges after cash was taken from a trust fund for a critical ill family member, said Winnipeg police. Jessica Bondar, 19, is waiting for heart transplant at a Montreal hospital. "Right now, I'm stuck in the hospital

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a breakthrough cancer medication from Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. that researchers have heralded as the first drug to prolong the lives of patients with melanoma.

The federal government has announced a new 10-year pandemic flu vaccine contract with GlaxoSmithKline, valued at more than $425 million.

Africa's rhinos face their worst poaching crisis in decades with organized crime syndicates killing more than 800 in the past three years alone, a global network of conservationists said Friday.

A U.S. federal agency said Friday that it will review Eastman Kodak Co.'s high-stakes patent-infringement claim against technology giants Apple Inc. and Research in Motion Ltd.

The Saskatchewan Crown is asking the Supreme Court to hear an appeal of the acquittal of a woman who gave birth in a Walmart bathroom and left the newborn in a toilet.

Disgraced pathologist Charles Smith was reprimanded by The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario on Friday in a harshly worded reprimand of his "repulsive" transgressions.

A B.C. man convicted of murdering his pregnant wife will have to spend 15 years behind bars before he is eligible to apply for parole.

More Canadian municipalities are pledging to power down Saturday for Earth Hour, but an expert says interest in the event may already be fizzling

Libyan rebels danced, honked horns and fired guns into the air on Saturday after regaining control of the key eastern city of Ajdabiya, marking the first major turnaround in an uprising that last week seemed on the verge of defeat.

Efforts to control radiation levels in Japan are facing fresh setbacks as levels of radioactive iodine in the sea near the Fukushima nuclear plant are now 1,250 times higher than normal.

Canada's 41st federal election campaign kicked off Saturday morning after Prime Minister Stephen Harper met with the Governor General to dissolve Parliament and send Canadians to the polls on May 2.

The Harper Conservatives are at the threshold of a majority government as the country plunges into the fourth election campaign in seven years, according to an exclusive Toronto Star/La Presse poll.

Conservation specialists have rediscovered the soundtrack of a deadly shipwreck from the Klondike Gold Rush.

Wolves are eating more cattle in southwestern Alberta than previously known, according to researchers from the University of Alberta.

Since mid-January, North Africa and the Middle East have been gripped by revolutionary fever.

Canadians waking up Saturday may soon find a politician standing on their doorsteps, after Prime Minister Stephen Harper starts the morning by asking the Governor General to formally end the parliamentary session.

An order of Roman Catholic priests agreed Friday to pay $166.1 million to hundreds of Native Americans and Alaska Natives who were abused at the order's schools around the U.S. Pacific Northwest.

Mounties say a 13-year-old girl is in stable condition after being shot Friday morning in Surrey, B.C., and that the suspected gunman is dead.

A North Vancouver man who has been languishing for three years without trial in a Mexican jail tried to commit suicide after being told his troubled case will suffer another lengthy delay, according to his wife.

A lucky skier who survived an avalanche on B.C.'s Monashee Mountains with a camera strapped to his head says he survived by flailing his arms and fighting to keep his head above the snow.

Roberto Luongo stopped 30 shots and the Vancouver Canucks set franchise records for road wins and points in a season, beating the Atlanta Thrashers 3-1 on Friday night.

A Qatari fighter jet became the first from an Arab country to fly a sortie over Libya as international airstrikes continued to destroy military machinery and weapons belonging to the forces of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.

Department of Fisheries and Oceans announced Friday the hunt will start Sunday at 6 a.m. for all sealers from the Gulf, Maritimes and Magdelan Islands.

Canada will get to challenge the European Union's trade ban on seal products at a World Trade Organization dispute panel.

The B.C. government is working toward holding a provincewide referendum June 24 on the controversial harmonized sales tax.

With possessions balanced on their heads, about 1,000 people frantically crowded around buses rented by Mali to evacuate its citizens Friday from Ivory Coast, as the UN said up to 1 million have fled their homes amid fears of civil war.

Israel deployed its newly developed "Iron Dome" rocket defence system for the first time Friday to defend its southern communities from attacks by Gaza militants after a bloody week of Palestinian strikes and Israeli reprisals.

Yemen's president, speaking to thousands of people at a pro-government demonstration on Friday, underscored his intentions to have a dialogue with protesters and make concessions in order to avoid bloodshed.

TRIPOLI - Western warplanes bombed Moammar Gadhafi's tanks and artillery in eastern Libya on Friday to try to break a battlefield stalemate and help rebels take the strategic town of Ajdabiyah.

A man has died after Jordanian security forces used batons and sprayed water to disperse a clash between pro-monarchy and pro-reform demonstrators in Amman.

The Everglades -- the picturesque, sensitive and environmentally diverse wetlands in Florida -- may have been built on the trash heaps of ancient humans.

At 12:15 p.m. on Friday, March 25, 2011, Minister of National Defence, the Honourable Peter MacKay, Major-General Tom Lawson, Assistant Chief of the Air Staff, and Brigadier-General Richard Blanchette, Canadian Forces (CF) Spokesperson, provided a technic

The embattled Libyan regime led by Moammar Gadhafi has accused coalition forces of killing civilians with thundering airstrikes that have struck targets near the outskirts of Tripoli, while Western military officials dismissed the claims as government pro

Violence erupted around Syria on Friday as troops opened fire on protesters in several cities and pro- and anti-government crowds clashed on the tense streets of the capital in the most widespread unrest in years, witnesses said.

A former Libyan prime minister participating in talks at the African Union says his country is ready to talk with opposition rebels and accept political reforms, possibly including elections.

A harsh late-March storm closed schools, clinics and offices across eastern Newfoundland while making stretches of highways treacherous to traffic.

Lt.-Gen. Charles Bouchard of Canada will take over command of the NATO mission in Libya, Canadian Defence Minister Peter MacKay said Friday.

From within his 12-year-old, mildly autistic mind, there gradually flowed long strings of pluses, minuses, funky letters and upside-down triangles -- a tapestry of complicated symbols that few can understand.

Animal activists say the Bible needs to be more considerate of God's furry friends.

Some public school parents in Edgewater, Florida, want a first-grade girl with life-threatening peanut allergies removed from the classroom and home-schooled, rather than deal with special rules to protect her health, a school official said.

Signs of a rift between Danny Williams and his party have flared into the open just before the leadership convention to crown his designated successor.

Farmers in the Fraser Valley are on the lookout for livestock rustlers responsible for the theft of 22 lambs, six ducks and 65 chickens in the last month.

Green Party Leader Elizabeth May says her main focus during this spring's expected election will be winning her own riding, not leading a national campaign.

Japan's police agency says the death toll from the earthquake and tsunami two weeks ago has officially topped 10,000.

At least 50 people died and 40 were injured when an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.8 hit northeastern Burma, also known as Myanmar, shaking buildings as far away as Bangkok.

Japanese nuclear safety officials say they suspect that the reactor core at one unit of the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant may have breached.

The recent discovery of ancient tools in a Texas creek bed shows human settlers arrived in North America about 2,500 years earlier than originally believed, say archeologists.

NATO appeared on Thursday to move closer to assuming command of the military operation in Libya when Turkey's foreign minister was quoted as saying an agreement has been reached.

Canada is sending two reconnaissance aircraft, CP-140 Auroras, to Italy to support efforts to protect civilians in Libya, Defence Minister Peter MacKay says.

Junk science and questionable political motives are behind a new federal report that calls for an experimental cull of 70 per cent of the grey seals in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence, a leading critic of Canada's annual seal hunt says.

With Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's air force destroyed, and NATO warships patrolling the coasts, the opposition forces have begun taking haphazard steps towards forming a government in the eastern part of the country.

The blowout preventer that should have stopped the BP oil spill failed largely because of a faulty design and a trapped piece of pipe, an official probe found Wednesday, appearing to shift some blame for the blowout from the oil giant and toward those who

Scenes of devastation in Japan have hit home in British Columbia, where residents who share a place on the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire are taking measures to prepare for the possibility of a devastating earthquake on their own coast.

Daniel Sedin scored twice and Roberto Luongo made 39 saves, leading the Vancouver Canucks to a 2-1 win against the hometown Detroit Red Wings on Wednesday night.

There will be nine games on the NHL schedule on Thursday, many of them with playoff implications, but they all figure to be dwarfed in attention by the matchup between the Montreal Canadiens and Boston Bruins.

The federal government has cancelled its plans to de-staff 50 lighthouses in British Columbia and Newfoundland and Labrador, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Gail Shea announced on Wednesday.

Toronto Coun. Giorgio Mammoliti is proposing a red light district on Toronto Island, arguing it would generate millions of dollars in revenue for the city and provide a defined, out-of-the-way place for sex-trade workers to ply their trade.

The top two teams in the Western Conference will meet tonight in the Motor City, as the Detroit Red Wings welcome the Vancouver Canucks to Joe Louis Arena.

A detector in St. John's has picked up signs of radiation believed to have come from damaged nuclear power facilities in Japan.

Around 500 Shaw Communications employees in Western Canada lost their jobs on Wednesday.

Canadian fighter jets have bombed an ammunition depot in northern Libya in the first attacks by Canadian aircraft in the campaign to enforce a no-fly zone.

The opposition parties have turned up the pressure on the Conservative government, with NDP and Bloc Quebecois agreeing to support a Liberal non-confidence motion that could go to a vote on Friday.

Abe Mashal, a 31-year-old dog trainer from St. Charles, says FBI agents told him he ended up on the government�s no-fly list because he exchanged e-mails with a Muslim cleric they were monitoring. The topic: How to raise his children in an interfaith ho

Cellphones could charge in seconds, and laptops or even electric vehicles in minutes, thanks to a new battery technology developed by scientists at the University of Illinois.

The House of Commons voted Monday night in favour of Canada participating in the United Nations mission in Libya.

Moammar Gadhafi's snipers and tanks are attacking civilians in Libya's third-largest city, leading the commander of the coalition enforcing a no-fly zone to say Tuesday that attacks on the Libyan leader's ground forces will accelerate in the "coming hours

Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi slammed the coalition of nations conducting a military operation over his country in an address broadcast Tuesday.

Opposition leaders immediately rejected the Conservative government's budget Tuesday, setting the stage for a possible spring election.

The risk was not related to a threat against the CF-18s, but rather potential damage to civilians or important infrastructure such as hospitals

The Conservative government is pulling out the stops to try and make a deal to pass the federal budget, organizing a last-minute meeting this afternoon with the NDP.

A study using census data from nine countries shows that religion there is set for extinction, say researchers.

An elite group of scientists is heading to one of the coldest places on Earth to carry out vital research on global warming.

Vancouver tops the chart of Canadian cities leading the fight against climate change, says the World Wildlife Fund.

Loud explosions and anti-aircraft fire have rocked the Libyan capital for the third night as an international coalition enforces a no-fly zone over the country and targets forces loyal to leader Moammar Gadhafi.

Discord erupted Monday in Europe over whether the military operation in Libya should be controlled by NATO, after Turkey blocked the alliance's participation while Italy issued a veiled threat to withdraw the use of its bases unless the alliance was put i

More than 9,000 people are known to have been killed by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, Japanese police said Tuesday.

Health Canada says its monitoring stations are detecting a "minuscule" increase in radiation levels along the B.C. coast in the wake of the nuclear crisis in Japan.

The mission to enforce a no-fly zone over Libya is the right thing to do, Defence Minister Peter MacKay told the House of Commons Monday.

GAZA � Israel launched air strikes in the Gaza Strip on Monday, wounding at least 19 people, after militants fired mortar shells and rockets into the Jewish state, witnesses and militant groups said.

Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- A CNN correspondent on Monday angrily rejected a report by the Fox network that he and other journalists were used as human shields by Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi to prevent a missile attack on his compound.